20 Ways To Make Your Christmas Merry & Bright

Christmas is just 45 days away and I’ve noticed lots of folks are Pinning and Instagramming Christmas ideas for inspiration.

At the top of BNOTP, you’ll find a category called, Holiday Home. Under Holiday Home, you’ll find a subcategory called, Christmas. Under Christmas you’ll find lots of decorating ideas, house tours, crafts, movies, recipes, tablescapes and napkin folds for a very merry Christmas.

For this Met Monday, I’m linking to 20 previous posts that I hope you’ll find helpful as you plan for your holiday decorating this year. Wow, just 45 days ’til Christmas…how that can be?!

Looking forward to all the wonderful Before and Afters for this Metamorphosis Monday!

If you are participating in Metamorphosis Monday, please link up using the “permalink” to your MM post and not your general blog address. To get your permalink, click on your post name, then just copy and paste the address that shows up in the address bar at the top of your blog, into the “url” box for InLinkz.

In order to link up, you’ll need to include a link in your MM post back to the party so the other participants will have an opportunity to receive visits from your wonderful blog readers.

Please observe these few rules:

Only link up Before and After posts that are home, gardening, crafting, painting, sewing, cooking, DIY related.

Comments

Thanks so much for hosting! Your link party consistently brings more traffic to my blog than any other! And thanks for providing the links to all of your fabulous Christmas posts… can’t wait to check them out! I can see they will provide great inspiration! 🙂 ~Rhonda

Thanks for the party, Susan and for sharing so much Christmas fun in one place! I can never seem to get enough of your pretty dining room. Must be the red! I am off to pin and poke around a bit. You know I am starting with the post where you’re under the sink! 😉

Thanks for the great ideas, Susan. I love all of them, but my favorite is the Christmas houses centerpiece — adorable! I don’t think I’ve ever seen that done before, and I may have to copy that since we have a few houses from It’s a Wonderful Life. Was that sugar you used for the snow?

Thanks, Dee! I had a couple of small bags of the faux snow that you can buy around this time of year. I can’t remember now where I found it, but I bet you can find it on Amazon. I think Dept. 56 may even make/sell faux snow for their house displays. When shopping for that kind of snow, there’s a lot of variation in the quality of the fake snow that you can buy. Some looks totally fake and other brands look amazingly real! For another tablescape, I used the kind that you can buy in a can which did look very realistic, but it a big drawback: it could not be used on a wood surface. You can see that table with the canned type snow in this post: https://betweennapsontheporch.net/a-christmas-tablescape-with-the-churches-of-dept-56-welcome-to-the-119th-tablescape-thursday/

Susan, I love seeing the exterior of your beautiful home at Christmas time. It is the most inviting Christmas look anywhere. Thank you for sharing all of these great Christmas ideas. I had forgotten about that cute snowman cake. Thanks for hosting.

Thanks so much, Laurie! Wreaths on windows have to be my most fave Christmas decoration. I’ve been putting them up earlier and earlier each year…just can’t resist. Do you think my neighbors would talk about me if I put them up the day after Halloween. lol 😉

If I haven’t told you lately, I just want to thank you for your blog. I have stepped outside the box in my unsureness of mixing and matching colors, textiles and decor. It’s so much fun coming to your site every day/week to see what is new.

I started on the vintage tartan tablescape at work. You can’t tell from the pictures you posted but WS presidio Silver Chargers are underneath the tartan chargers. It looks like the edge of the tartan charger but it’s the presidio. My manager was as amazed as I was when I put the plates out on the table. I can’t wait until tomorrow when I finish it.

I seriously would have ever put those plates together, let alone the napkins and napkin rings. It’s going to be a really pretty and elegant table.

Thanks so much, Jeri! Appreciate those kind words so much! I see what you’re talking about now…that little silver edge. I hadn’t realized that was a charger under there. It’s just barely bigger than the tartan charger. I bet that looks beautiful in person with the vintage china pattern in that color. That picture is from the Williams-Sonoma site and I do love how they combined it all. If you can, take some pictures of the table when you get it finished, I would love to see it!

On a similar note – I have been interested in getting more than one christmas tree, especially and orange to start at Halloween and go through Christmas (for a Hokie Christmas). Well did you know there is a site for colored trees? Treetopia.com. Who knew! I am planning on getting the orange one after Christmas when it goes on sale (hopefully) and then through out the year buying the bulbs/ornaments online.

Hi, Susan! What a fun post you had with all the links! Thanks for making it easy to find all this good stuff! I immediately went to the staircase one, because I have “a thing” about staircases. We, too, hang our stockings (11 of them last year, 12 this year for our newest baby!) on the banister (I’ve included pictures in some of my Christmas posts), so of course yours caught my attention.

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